handle excludeBaseProperties

lib/model-builder.js

@@ -256,8 +256,18 @@ ModelBuilder.prototype.define = function defineClass(className, properties, sett
   ModelClass.setter = {};
 
   for (var p in properties) {
-    // Remove properties that reverted by the subclass
-    if (properties[p] === null || properties[p] === false) {
+    // e.g excludePropertyList = ['id'] -  base properties listed in excludePropertyList will be excluded from the model.
+    // excludeBaseProperties is introduced in SOAP model generation only for now and below logic
+    // handles excludeBaseProperties. Generated SOAP model has base as 'Model' which means 'id' property gets added
+    // automatically and 'id' property shouldn't be there for SOAP models. idInjection = false will not work
+    // for SOAP generator case, since base 'Model' has already id property. 'id: false' at the property level will not
+    // work either for SOAP generator case since generators use ModelDefinition.create to create property in the model
+    // dynamically, that execution path has strict validation where doesn't accept 'id: false' in a property.
+    // See https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-workspace/issues/486 for some more details.
+    var excludePropertyList = settings['excludeBaseProperties'];
+    // Remove properties that reverted by the subclass of the property from excludePropertyList
+    if (properties[p] === null || properties[p] === false ||
+      (excludePropertyList != null && excludePropertyList.indexOf(p) != -1)) {
       // Hide the base property
       delete properties[p];
     }